The lights went out once again at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital before Grey's Anatomy season 22 returns to screens in 2025, and sooner or later, they will never be shown again. Even with the kind of soft reset that a few years ago brought a new crop of interns, it won't be long before Grey's Anatomy gets his usual bloodlust and starts getting rid of characters for ratings. Maybe it's a cynical reading, and I don't mean this entirely, but I'm hurt by something that happened in Grey's Anatomy season 21 finale. No, not the suspense, or the tragic suggestion…
Author: Simon Gallagher
Warning: This post contains SPOILERS for What If...? season 3For all the success of UCM era, there have been some dark days in Marvel comic book movies' past, and one of them has taken an even darker turn thanks to 2024's latest big superhero release. Before the MCU, there were several attempts to adapt Marvel Comics, from the early era of the series, with 1940s adaptations of both Captain Marvel and Captain America to the weirdness of the Spider-Man and Captain America films of the late 1970s. But it wasn't until the 1980s that studios started investing real money in…
Interestingly, 2024 was hailed as reinvigorating the MCU despite there being only one film release, while DC suffered a severe blow to the reception and performance of Joker: Folie à Deuxand Sony's Spider-Man universe apparently came to an inauspicious end. The writing on this series was very difficult, and Sony will have more plans for its Marvel characters, but the triumvirate of Lady Teia, Venom: The Last Danceand Kraven didn't exactly move the needle. Aside from the focus, 2024 was not a good year for comic book movies. There were a good number of them, but if any of them…
This article covers a developing story. Keep checking back with us as we will add more information as it becomes available. James Gunn announced that Creature Commandsthe first official release of the DCU, is getting a second season, even though the first season is currently airing. The announcement came courtesy of the DCU boss's X account and was backed up by official word from the studio. Here is the announcement from Warner Bros: The critically acclaimed and fan-favorite Max Original adult animated series CREATURE COMMANDSwritten and produced by filmmaker and DC Studios co-president James Gunn, has been renewed for a…
Stranger Things Season 5 is confirmed as the final chapter in the Duffer brothers' epic sci-fi horror saga, and the final volume of the story of Eleven, Will and the town of Hawkins is beyond expectations. The two-part season 4 finale of Stranger Things saw the heroes in a final confrontation with Vecna while Hawkins faced another feud caused by the villain. The story still has one last arc to cover, and Stranger Things Season 5 will finally end Eleven's fight against Vecna and the Upside Down, one way or another. The Duffer brothers planned Stranger Things' expansive story from…
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for What If...? Season 3 For what feels like years, Marvel fans have discussed the possibility of a World War Hulkwith rumors appearing almost like clockwork every time a “scooper” wants to earn delicious dollars on social media. The persistence of this speculation may well point to something concrete, with the latest rounds suggesting that 2025 Captain America: Brave New World will actively prepare Bruce Banner's first solo project in the MCU. But regardless of the legitimacy of anything posted by supposed insiders, it remains a hoax that we have never seen a World War…
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for What If...? season 3. Before the arrival of Red Hulk in 2025 Captain America: Brave New Worldthe MCU just revealed two incredibly powerful Hulk upgrades that make all the Hulks thus far seem puny in comparison. Having already introduced a new Hulk in season 2 with the mutant form of Happy Hogan in Marvel's Die Hard riff, And if...? season three's return to screens ramps things up massively. The live-action Hulk is still in his Smart Hulk form after Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner managed to achieve a kind of zen-like balance between the conflicting…
Over the past three years, Marvel has released a new chapter of creative, refreshing, and sometimes downright silly animation, with And if…? The MCU's Annual Event Ends (Beyond the Next Marvel Zombies spin-off in 2025) with the release of this year's third season, once again scheduled to release an episode every day during Christmas. Over the same time, And if…? has consistently strived to reap the low-hanging fruit in its multiverse: actually answering any questions anyone might have about the Sliding doors parts of the Multiverse. The very concept of And if…? As it was originally conceived, it was to…
Without immediately falling into cliché, vacations and romantic comedies are an undeniably perfect combination. Some of the best Christmas movies are romantic comedies, in fact. Both trade liberally on nostalgia, generate tensions in relationships (and often hamper broader family dynamics), and are, at their best, incomparable sources of escapism and comfort. They don't tend to be made as often these days, with a mocking cynicism directed at the subgenre that tends to lump everything together under the Hallmark Movie label. But this is unfair to both parties. Romantic comedies look best against a backdrop of snow and twinkling lights, and…
Any examination of It's a wonderful life is not complete without acknowledging the fact that contemporary reviews were far from universally positive and that they caused RKO Films a loss of over $500,000. Mocked by some for its sentimentality and simplistic ideas, Frank Capra's masterpiece has grown in stature and appreciation in the decades since its release, to the point that this context seems downright baffling. You can't force good taste, I guess. Repeated endlessly at Christmas over the years, It's a wonderful life is returning to theaters nearly 80 years after its release, as if anyone needed an excuse…